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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2708
Title'Vessels Departing' by Emlyn Williams
Extent1 file
Date1922-1933
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Vessels Departing', originally titled 'Port Said'; with photographs of members of the casts; typescript inside front cover gives dates

Performed at The Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, 3 Jul 1933 (two weeks); produced by John Fernald; setting by P. I. Peache
The Wyndham's Theatre, London 1 Nov 1931 (as 'Port Said'); presented by The Arts Theatre Club; produced by [Emlyn Williams]

Casts: Flora Robson, Edith Sharpe, Dorothy Minto, May Agate, W. Cronin Wilson, Frank Royde, Rodney Millington, Eric Berry, Jessica Tandy, Ann Coddrington, Brember Wills, Marie Burke, Emlyn Williams, Rodney Millington, Jack Hawkins, Percy Parsons, David Hawthorne, Stephanie Rivers, Edith Sharpe

File also includes typescript giving details and cast list for a musical play entitled 'The Smith Family' by Clifford Grey, Stanley Logan and Philip Page
Lyrics by Clifford Grey; music by Nat D. Ayer; additional scenes and numbers by Wal Pink and Rudolf Nelson

Performed at: The Empire Theatre, London, 6 Sep 1922, closing performance (129th) 16 Dec 1922; presented by [Edward Laurillard]; staged by [Gus Stohlke]; costumes by [Comelli]

Cast: Harry Tate, Connie Ediss, Ella Retford, Cora Goffin, Tommy Tweedley, Harry Beasley, Mabel Green, Billy Caryll, Paul Daly, Robert Nainby, Mr Kennedy, Basil S. Foster, Charlie Brooks, Phyllis Bedalls, Hilda Mundy, Frank Leslie, Herbert Vyvyan, Millicent Marsden, Norah Howard, Huxmore Tate, Ronald Tate, Charles Weaver, Lena King
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